Written by

Michelle Conerly
Pacific Daily News

Consolidated Commission on Utilities member Joey Duenas last Thursday told a small crowd gathered in Agana Heights to imagine the world as the size of a basketball.

"The amount of water on the surface of the Earth would be the size of a golf ball," he said. "And the amount of potable water on the Earth would be the size of a BB gun pellet."

Putting the importance of water in perspective, Duenas was one of the officials to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Agana Heights and Chaot water storage tanks Thursday morning, across from Government House, near the Agana Heights tank. ...